I’m at a conference today. The organisers just told me that I can’t bring my daughter to the networking session or the dinner tonight. I couldn’t get a babysitter. This is one of those times, as a single parent, that you really miss out. It felt like a gut punch.

California has jumped to 2nd spot in the list of states with #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds, with Dept. of Agriculture confirming 18 new herds there today. There appear to be 2 more CA herds pending as well. WOW! Cumulative national total is now 232 in 14 states. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Such an honour to speak today at the #ISDN conference in Montpellier. A great way to cap off 4 days of amazing developmental neuroscience. Looking forward to the next meeting in 2026 😊

Our team is growing! We have a full time position in Pediatric Immunology available in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Join us! Turvey lab Catherine Biggs Elliot James, MD UBC Department of Pediatrics jobs.phsa.ca/job/vancouver/…

Happening today!

An important study by F. Eun-Hyung Lee's team shows that long lived plasma cells (the source of long-term circulating antibodies) fail to establish after mRNA vaccination (even combined with SARS-CoV-2 infection). 🧵 (1/) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Note that current vaccines are still important, as they boost short-term antibody responses, restimulate memory cells, generate variant-matched immune responses...etc. But we can do better. (8/)

I see some discussion of this paper going around: nature.com/articles/s4159… It was preprinted a while ago but since that time I have had an opportunity to talk to some plasma cells researchers and it is apparent that there is a lot of important nuance being missed 🧵

Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is hiring THREE new tenure-track Assistant Professors! Join our world-class, multidisciplinary environment where you’ll collaborate with excellent people and contribute to groundbreaking research and education. ⬇️. .

Students already have a PI and reviewers, do they really need another out of touch entity suggesting new experiments they should do? 😄

Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline. No place is safe from climate change. We all suffer the consequences. We must all take action. We are all in this together.

More than half of cats drinking raw milk at dairy farms w/H5N1 have died. Here's what their hemorrhagic brain looks like. Reports describe muscle atrophy, blindness, circling, copious nasal discharge, stiffness & brain cell necrosis in cats w/bird flu.

See Prof. Meghan Azad, PhD University of Manitoba CHRIM interviewed on CTV News Winnipeg about her recent CHILD research into #breastfeeding & the infant #microbiome winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video/c3003546…

Dawn Bowdish Dawn Bowdish, on this panel, is an absolute role model - including for anyone in, or considering entering, medicine.

thread of amazing papercraft artists to follow✂️

This is the best news of the week! ‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries! A twice year injection that showed 100% success in protecting against HIV infection! theguardian.com/global-develop…

🚨Vanderbilt is hiring🚨 Join an incredible community of motivated, creative, supportive scientists (in a super fun city in a beautiful state)! We’re especially looking for peeps interested in virology/antiviral immunity/nucleic acid sensing. apply.interfolio.com/156537

The fabulous Norbert Pardi and I wrote a review about mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases. Maybe worth a read if you are interested in the topic. nature.com/articles/s4157…

Universal rules govern plasmid copy number biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof level in beautiful Vancouver 😊 Apply by Oct 24th! Please repost and spread the word 🙏